AT&T To Buy DIRECTV for $67 Billion

[meStevo]

In a customer. I'm not worried. They have competition and I'll take my business elsewhere of they follow through on any of the FUD.

Not worried about it, bring on the acquisition.

 

[ke4pym]

I am a customer and I am very worried. Well, worried that I'll have to get off my rear and finally mount that outdoor antenna. I refuse to do any business what so ever with that pathetic excuse of a company.

The market is saturated. Everyone that wants satellite service has it (much like the cellular market). If DirecTV wants to remain competitive, then they need to keep pushing the technology barriers and compete on price.

The fact of the matter, and unlike the Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger is, a competitor will leave the market. And to what end? To have one less competitor and to raise prices (not that DirecTV isn't doing a great job of that on their own).

In a customer. I'm not worried. They have competition and I'll take my business elsewhere of they follow through on any of the FUD.

Not worried about it, bring on the acquisition.

You leaving won't make them change anything. Me leaving won't make them change anything. Look at them in the cellular market. Same prices, same handsets, same bucket o limits. Its faux competition.

AT&T's broadband deployment is a joke. They dumped $3bn CAPEX not what, 3 weeks ago on their wire-line division after promising to roll out much more gig everywhere if they get DirecTV. Thankfully, the FCC is taking notice, finally at what a bunch of liars they are.

 

[meStevo]

TV providers aren't very analogous to cell providers, doubt you'd let something like that interfere with the agenda/fud posting though.

There's little point acquiring the company if you are going to scuttle it. If they head that direction I'll switch both our accounts to Cox/Centurylink/Dish. No big deal.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

As I've said before,I have AT&T DSL & Directv,so I'm pretty benign about their merger together. I see no downside to the merger.

 

[Jimbo]

Hmmm, sounds like alot of people won't be on this thread after the merger goes thru ...
Most of you are saying you'll leave basically if it goes thru .... that disappointing ... whats gonna happen when that company you move to gets bought up by another company that does as well as att or less ...
Things could be much worse.

 

[harshness]

Customers of DIRECTV have to put up with what will happen to the service long after the shareholders get their cash and go away.

The merger isn't a straight cash deal. For DIRECTV stockholders it is $28.50 cash and 66.50 worth of AT&T stock (slipping closer to two shares).

Given the proposed three year migration on DIRECTV operations, it could take some time for the merger's long-term effects to be realized.

 

[mike123abc]

The merger isn't a straight cash deal. For DIRECTV stockholders it is $28.50 cash and 66.50 worth of AT&T stock (slipping closer to two shares).

Given the proposed three year migration on DIRECTV operations, it could take some time for the merger's long-term effects to be realized.

For now all the satellites are ordered and are being built, so there should not be any cut backs for a while.

 

[ke4pym]

Hmmm, sounds like alot of people won't be on this thread after the merger goes thru ...
Most of you are saying you'll leave basically if it goes thru .... that disappointing ... whats gonna happen when that company you move to gets bought up by another company that does as well as att or less ...
Things could be much worse.

It doesn't get much worse than AT&T, Jimbo.

Not too worried about the company I move to. OTA doesn't work like that.

It astounds me the number of folks here who are for this deal. Are you just blind to AT&T's ways? Or do you just not care?

http://www.freepress.net/sites/defa...ress_14-90_Petition_to_Deny_FINAL_9-16-14.pdf

TV providers aren't very analogous to cell providers, doubt you'd let something like that interfere with the agenda/fud posting though.

There's little point acquiring the company if you are going to scuttle it. If they head that direction I'll switch both our accounts to Cox/Centurylink/Dish. No big deal.

It seems to me that TV/cell providers are in a very similar boat. They've both reached market saturation. They both enjoy very limited competition (had AT&T been successful with T-Mo even less so) and they both enjoy raising their rates on a dime, because they know you have no where to go. And neither are shy to cry they're out of bandwidth when in reality, nothing could be further from the truth (taking a little liberal dance here to include folks like Comcast/AT&T, and such with their bandwidth caps).

SBC brought AT&T back together and they're scuttling their wire-line division as fast as they can. And for the cost of what AT&T is buying DirecTV for, they could have used the same capital to significantly bring U-Verse up to some pretty awesome standards and not removed a competitor from the market in the first place.

 

[joed32]

Hmmm, sounds like alot of people won't be on this thread after the merger goes thru ...
Most of you are saying you'll leave basically if it goes thru .... that disappointing ... whats gonna happen when that company you move to gets bought up by another company that does as well as att or less ...
Things could be much worse.

It's going to be lonely on here! We'll see if very many people follow through or if they are just complaining.

 

[harshness]

For now all the satellites are ordered and are being built, so there should not be any cut backs for a while.

A satellite doesn't cost as much as one year of NFLST. DIRECTV has many recurring costs as well as the $18.6 billion in paper debt that AT&T has offered to assume.

 

[dishfan82]

What I want to know is when AT&T buys directv will I be able to get out of my contract without paying an ETF since it's a new company and I don't agree with their terms.


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[meStevo]

Of course not, for a variety of reasons that there's no point going into because you know why.

 

[Jimbo]

A satellite doesn't cost as much as one year of NFLST. DIRECTV has many recurring costs as well as the $18.6 billion in paper debt that AT&T has offered to assume.

Go ahead, try to buy a Sat for $300 .... good luck with that.

 

[harshness]

Go ahead, try to buy a Sat for $300 .... good luck with that.

I thought it was obvious that I was comparing the cost of the NFL ST package to DIRECTV ($1.5 billion) versus the cost of a new satellite.

mike123abc's assertion seemed to be that DIRECTV is done "spending" for a while and that's simply not the case.

 

[mike123abc]

I thought it was obvious that I was comparing the cost of the NFL ST package to DIRECTV ($1.5 billion) versus the cost of a new satellite.

mike123abc's assertion seemed to be that DIRECTV is done "spending" for a while and that's simply not the case.

I think that DIRECTV will invest a lot more in satellites and equipment development if it remains independent of AT&T. Right now if AT&T gets DIRECTV its hands are tied as far as current satellite orders go, but long term, do you really think that AT&T will spend more than DIRECTV would spend? AT&T has a bad history of spending the minimum amount to get by. Look at their U-Verse issues vs VZ's FIOS, or their cellular data melt down a few years ago vs VZ's LTE push? AT&T recently announced a 3 billion dollar cut to their wireline side of the business (i.e. U-Verse). Think of the billions they could save by shaving a few satellites...

 

[harshness]

I think that DIRECTV will invest a lot more in satellites and equipment development if it remains independent of AT&T. Right now if AT&T gets DIRECTV its hands are tied as far as current satellite orders go, but long term, do you really think that AT&T will spend more than DIRECTV would spend?

I believe that the intention is to substantially replace the satellite service with terrestrial service in the long term. They'll wring what they can out of the satellites (through DIRECTV 15) and launch replacements as necessary.

 

[Jimbo]

I think that DIRECTV will invest a lot more in satellites and equipment development if it remains independent of AT&T. Right now if AT&T gets DIRECTV its hands are tied as far as current satellite orders go, but long term, do you really think that AT&T will spend more than DIRECTV would spend? AT&T has a bad history of spending the minimum amount to get by. Look at their U-Verse issues vs VZ's FIOS, or their cellular data melt down a few years ago vs VZ's LTE push? AT&T recently announced a 3 billion dollar cut to their wireline side of the business (i.e. U-Verse). Think of the billions they could save by shaving a few satellites...

Maybe they got rid of the lines they did, so they would have it to put elsewhere, into Sats.

D* is not gonna let ATT run it into the ground.

This may be a move that will change the thinking of those naysayers.

 

[joed32]

What I want to know is when AT&T buys directv will I be able to get out of my contract without paying an ETF since it's a new company and I don't agree with their terms.


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Your screen name is dishfan82 and you have Directv?

 

[harshness]

D* is not gonna let ATT run it into the ground.

Once acquired, DIRECTV, its Board of Directors, former shareholders and current customers will have very little to say about what AT&T does with it. At consummation, DIRECTV shareholders will hold less than 20% of the outstanding AT&T shares; maybe enough to get three people installed on the 15 member AT&T Board of Directors.

 

[Blackloz]

Maybe it's DirecTV that should have bought AT&T instead of the other way around.


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